It was my birthday recently and my present was this book on the narrow gauge system in the Crewe railway works. It’s a really enjoyable book. The history is well written and the photos are very interesting, particularly the superb images of the interior of the iron foundry. Plus the Ramsbottom locos are irresistable. I…
— Read on 009adventure.blog/2019/02/14/crewe-works-narrow-gauge/

To hide the access to the fiddle yard on Thomas and Sons I decided to add an entrance gate in the narrow gap between two buildings. LCut make a warehouse gate wall panel. I cut this to the appropriate size and I added some gates made of card (also from LCut). I still need to…
— Read on 009adventure.blog/2019/02/17/yard-entrance/

The Cha(I)rman spent the weekend in Bournemouth helping Richard ‘Ollie’ Oliver with his Bournemouth Corporation bus display. Allan writes: Just got back from a weekend at the Bournemouth Model Railway Exhibition. I was there helping (or I think I was) Richard with his display of Bournemouth Corporation Transport. As its 50 years since there last…
— Read on esngblog.com/2019/02/12/bournemouth-exhibition-2019-1/